tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post648773990857061610..comments2023-12-25T10:41:40.226+00:00Comments on Author Intrusion: Does Dyslexia Exist?Rod Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801828229505529131noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post-73719285741354809532009-05-12T23:12:00.000+01:002009-05-12T23:12:00.000+01:00Thanks for your encouraging comments on my blog. I...Thanks for your encouraging comments on my blog. I am excited to see that as a dyslexic you have become a novelist.<br /><br />Recognizing that my son learns differently has been like a load off my shoulders (not just for me, but for him). Now we have learned how to approach reading, spelling, and writing lessons. I have a plan for incorporating more math and keyboarding later on.<br /><br />Just because he will eventually learn these topics, he will still have to approach some subjects differently. Which is OK, we were approaching them differently with our homeschooling. Now, I just understand why I intuitively knew he would never do well in a local public school.Denise Punger MD IBCLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15005314822461783855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post-77211449299626931932009-05-09T00:02:00.000+01:002009-05-09T00:02:00.000+01:00Having been reading around the blogosphere on this...Having been reading around the blogosphere on this subject, I have been shocked to find the degree of confusion there is between 'dyslexia' and 'illiteracy'<br /><br />I'm really surprised. I thought we had got past that.Rod Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801828229505529131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post-50057490798397701662009-05-08T10:22:00.000+01:002009-05-08T10:22:00.000+01:00Rob
if you want to see scentific evidence about d...Rob<br /><br />if you want to see scentific evidence about dyslexia take a look at this link in my blog <br /><br />http://neuron.typepad.com/neuron/2008/11/learn-to-read-through-sound.html<br /><br />Nadine Gaab in The Childrens Hospital highlights one of the prevalent difficulties that some people have with language and reading.<br /><br />John KerinsJohn Kerinshttp://www.neuron.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post-40705251393123244152009-05-08T09:42:00.000+01:002009-05-08T09:42:00.000+01:00Thanks Niki,
I do sometimes get carried away when...Thanks Niki,<br /><br />I do sometimes get carried away when writing about this subject. This article started as a couple of lines in the comment box on another blog! They have reprinted it as an article, though, so I am pleased.Rod Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801828229505529131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post-13515806693976321962009-05-08T09:01:00.000+01:002009-05-08T09:01:00.000+01:00Of course dylexia exists. Anyone who says it doesn...Of course dylexia exists. Anyone who says it doesn't is being foolish and clearly doesn't understand that learning 'difficulty' does not mean a complete block. I think, as you say, one issue comes because it's somewhat a general terms for a variety of conditions. Another that parents are too quick to grab at it as a label for their child if he/she is not excelling at school, and that's not always helpful either. I know teachers who now groan at the very sound of the word, which can't be good. <br /><br />Enjoyed hearing about your experiences and feelings about this Rod.Ms Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01253929437848941761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post-89573748545110621282009-05-07T22:29:00.000+01:002009-05-07T22:29:00.000+01:00Thanks for the comment. Bad reporting and misinfor...Thanks for the comment. Bad reporting and misinformation seem rife, unfortunately.<br /><br />One of the things that can confuse the situation is that given a problem people can react in different ways to it. So, for example, I am disfunctionally untidy. Other dyslexics I know have become extremely tidy - presumably as a compensation method. <br /><br />Being a novelist, I go out and give public readings. People might well say that I am a gifted reader. The truth is, I have compensated for my poor reading by practicing the passages I read out until I almost know them by heart.Rod Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801828229505529131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10858604.post-22744958496674490022009-05-07T21:31:00.000+01:002009-05-07T21:31:00.000+01:00Of more concern to me, is that all the bad reporti...Of more concern to me, is that all the bad reporting and misinformation about dyslexia has the end result of confusing people. <br /><br />The definition of dyslexia is a moving target and often seems to have one cause the is always changing.<br /><br />I have seen 2 sources in the last week that say some dyslexics are very good readers.<br /><br />My reply to that is that every dyslexic in every dyslexic group that has been studied has required the dyslexics to Not be good readers. As far as I know very good readers are not dyslexic by definition . Until very good reading dyslexics are studied as dyslexics I don't see how they can be considered dyslexic.hayesatlbchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18404937694819904773noreply@blogger.com